“Predator” Ian Albert Ohab, who murdered and dismembered “vulnerable victim” Melissa Cooper, was sentenced Wednesday to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 22 years.

“Ohab didn’t dismember Ms. Cooper out of panic but did so to conceal how she was killed,” Justice Suhail Akhtar said of the 41-year-old, who was convicted in January of second-degree murder in the April 2016 slaying of Cooper, 30, at his apartment.

Ohab left his 220 Oak St. building, carrying Cooper’s body parts in bags, and returned looking “relaxed and self-satisfied,” said Akhtar.

“Disposing of Ms. Cooper’s body parts leaves an enduring, emotional scar on her friends and family. They will never get to say goodbye. Their agony, despite their best efforts, will stay with them forever,” the judge said.

“The judge’s sentence was perfect,” said the victim’s uncle Chris Cooper. “Justice is justice. It has been served but I hope the parole board sees Ohab for what he is — a predator without any remorse.”

“This guy is a predator and a monster. This verdict took a dangerous man off the streets,” Cooper’s stepfather Alan Ball said earlier.

“I’m not happy — he’s still alive and my stepdaughter was murdered. He dismembered her because he was concealing what he had done. There was no reason to do this if she had died of a drug overdose as he lied in his testimony,” said Ball.

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